Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance
This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans in the form of apothegms, but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life a...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
[2022]
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| Reeks: | UC Press voices revived.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13167908 |
| Samenvatting: | This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans in the form of apothegms, but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life and popularity, and begin to spread rapidly throughout Italy and beyond the Alps. The publication of Poggio Bracciolini's Liberfacetiarum was largely responsible for. |
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| Beschrijving item: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Fysieke beschrijving: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780520310186 0520310187 9780520305021 |